Kristian Tanninen

SaaS Founder, Development Team Coach, Interim Manager

I’m an experienced SaaS entrepreneur, development team coach and senior project manager. With over 20 years of work experience in enterprise software projects and SaaS business development I help companies to improve productivity and customer success. My passion is to lead professional teams to create new innovations that are changing the way we work and live.

Services

Consulting, training and interim management. Available online across the world or on-site in Finland, Austria, Switzerland and Germany:

Interim Management

I’ve been responsible for vast variety of teams of software developers, creative professionals and industry specialists. My certified project management skills and lean business development experience make projects to achieve goals. My approach is to build self-managing teams that are capable to improve their own performance. It is enabled by transparent processes, regular inspections and constant adaptation. Recent years I’ve been specializing into distributed team management, outsourced teams and agile methodologies.

Agile & Scrum Coaching

Agile development is easy to learn, but difficult to master. That’s why even the best agile teams invest regularly on team coaching. Focused consulting have a measurable impact on software development team’s productivity. It’s not only about processes or workflows. Instead, developers must get a positive attitude towards mutually agreed teamwork practices. This kind of team spirit can be enabled by sharing real life examples and development knowhow. Book a free strategy session with me and let’s evaluate your situation together.

Customer Success

Lean startup development, productization and SaaS customer success knowhow is the backbone of my services: Over 20 years of software product development projects, enterprise solutions and award winning SaaS products. I’ve designed new concepts from scratch and helped companies from small to large in innovation, sales funnels, customer onboarding automation, requirements engineering and service improvements. After gaining enough practical experience I also founded Growhold - a customer success dashboard for B2B online services.

Customers

As a consultant I’ve helped teams in global companies such as CGI, General Electric, Swiss Re, KPMG and many others. I’ve also a long track record in dozens of startup companies from enterprise software products to large scale consumer services and virtual reality experiences.

Project feedback given via Upwork freelancer network:

(5.0)

"Kristian did a fantastic job in shepherding us from a half-baked, scrum-ish process to one where we are now running much more efficiently and effectively with the right tools and the right mind-set. Highly recommend Kristian whether its turning the ship in the right direction or just brushing up on scrum process."Baltimore, US 2018

(5.0)

"Kristian, is a great guy and valued team member. He helped us to move heavy pieces of work and i will clearly hire him again."Mainz, Germany 2018

(5.0)

"It was a superb idea to discuss my start-up project with Kristian. I was only looking for validation / invalidation of some assumption but we (quickly) ended up with a new concept that is much more focused and easier to implement."Zurich, Switzerland 2018

(4.7)

"Kristian did a great job guarding the scrum process for our team and facilitating the sometimes difficult conversations during the initial storming and norming phases."Zurich, Switzerland 2017

(5.0)

"Very pleased to work with Kristian. His communications are great, he is very proactive, he sticks to deadlines, delivers the quality of work I expect and responds well to feedback. Highly recommended!"Vienna, Austria 2016

(5.0)

"Excellent to work with, highly recommended."London, United Kingdom 2015

Experience

Two decades of software development projects, team leading and business development: